Debbie Harry Quotes

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

The only person I really believe in is me.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

I could be a housewife… I guess I’ve vacuumed a couple of times.

How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

It's scary times for humanity, it seems. But as my octogenarian father tells me, "The world has seen harder times, and the world will survive." The arc of history is long, and the mess we're currently making is just a blip.

That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.

I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.

You have to leave room for the other person's ego.

To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don't know if I can do that. I'd like to have a lot of weapons, grenades and things. And I want to have a solar energy machine. And I want to have a sunken garden with a glass roof. I guess that's about it for now. I have a few other wants but I can't remember them.

I think that people in general, whether they are male or female, who are inhibited by the clichés of what women are or what men are, really don't like themselves. Because personality traits are not necessarily sexual.

That was always what I felt was the beauty of Rock 'n' Roll, it was entertainment and showbiz yet it had the idea of the voice of the people, it had an essence to it which was socially motivated. Not that I want to change to world, you know? But it was sort of relevant to real life, it involved the real essence of poetry or the real essence of fine art. But it was also entertainment. That was the real vitality.

I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

I'm against the idea that rock stars have to live a life that's completely understandable or predictable to their audience....Maybe I'll just be the mysterious figure that'll never be able to truly be defined. Maybe that's what my thing is.

For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.

I take lots of vitamins, but I don't think that's what keeps us going.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.